Director Andrew L. Stone, a stickler for realism, filmed Cry Terror in its entirety on location in New York, though some of the houses and apartments are given the MGM art-director touch. James Mason plays a television repairman coerced to… MoreDirector Andrew L. Stone, a stickler for realism, filmed Cry Terror in its entirety on location in New York, though some of the houses and apartments are given the MGM art-director touch. James Mason plays a television repairman coerced to participate in an extortion plot engineering by bespectacled criminal mastermind Rod Steiger. The villain wants to utilize Mason's technical expertise in rigging up a bomb on an airliner. To insure Mason's cooperation, Steiger's minions (among them Jack Klugman and Neville Brand) hold the repairman's wife (Inger Stevens) and children hostage. The wife manages to escape; she trips and falls on a subway track and lies unconscious as a train approaches and Mason rushes to her rescue. Goodbye realism, hello Perils of Pauline! Appearing briefly in Cry Terror's opening "news bulletin" sequence is real-life newscaster Chet Huntley.

Quality suspenser with James Mason and Inger Stevens the parents of a kidnapped child held for ransom. Taut scripting and direction and excellent performances… MoreQuality suspenser with James Mason and Inger Stevens the parents of a kidnapped child held for ransom. Taut scripting and direction and excellent performances from the all but particularly Inger make this very involving. Angie is a hissable villianess to bad she didn't get to play that aspect more.

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